The document summarizes a presentation about the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) and the 2014 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship. It describes the NDSA as a collaborative effort to preserve digital resources. It outlines the 2014 National Agenda's focus areas of organizational roles and practices, digital content, technical infrastructure, and research priorities. It argues the National Agenda helps shape conversations and priorities around digital preservation and is a tool to catalyze activity in the field.
Digital Repositories, the Data Set of the HumanitiesGreg Colati
Digital repositories store and organize digital resources to ensure their long-term preservation and access. They address the dilemma of how digital scholarship can remain discoverable and accessible over time. Repositories aim to be sustainable, authentic, interoperable, and allow reuse of materials in new contexts and applications. They aggregate content at institutional, regional, national and international levels to support research. UConn will launch repository services in 2013 to provide managed digital storage and preservation for university archives, research data, and other scholarly outputs.
Handout for Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
The document provides guidelines for a grant program that will fund projects by Indiana libraries to digitize historical materials. Libraries can apply for subgrants to digitize materials from their collections to contribute to the Indiana Digital Library. Projects must follow standards for digitization and metadata and make materials accessible online. The deadline to apply is March 31, 2006. Successful applicants will be notified in early May 2006.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
This document provides an overview of planning and implementing a digital library project. It discusses defining the project goals, planning activities such as selecting content and writing a proposal, and implementing digitization and metadata creation. The document emphasizes selecting materials that are locally unique and of statewide interest, following standards, and developing sustainable projects through partnerships and technical planning. It also reviews the Indiana State Library's LSTA grant application process and requirements. The overall aim is to help libraries develop "good digital collections" that are interoperable, persistent, and reusable.
Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partner...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
Planning and Managing Digital Library & Archive Projectsac2182
The document provides an overview of a workshop on developing and managing digital library and archive projects. It includes the workshop schedule, introductions from attendees, strategies for success, managing born-digital assets and digitized content, infrastructure requirements, and considerations for digital preservation over the long-term.
This document discusses environmental scanning and Library 2.0. It defines environmental scanning as communicating external information that may influence organizational decision making. Key components of an effective scan include top-level support, objectives, methodology, communication of results, and action planning. Characteristics of effective scanning teams include seeing beyond status quo and having a big picture view. Library 2.0 utilizes new technologies like blogs, wikis and tagging to create more interactive websites and connect users. It provides options for users and increases access to information.
Working in a Global Environment - Success Strategies for Today's Information ...SJSU School of Information
In her opening keynote for the Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference, Dr. Sandra Hirsh, professor and director of the San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Information, discussed the role of information professionals in a global community and the importance of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. Hirsh also talked about how information professionals can become “rock stars” in their organizations and information environments.
The Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference is the fourth annual event in a series of free virtual conferences co-founded by the SJSU School of Information. The role of libraries in the digital age is the theme of the free international conference. Session recordings can be accessed at http://www.library20.com/page/2014-recordings
Platform Thinking: Frameworks for a National Digital Platform State of MindTrevor Owens
Talk presented as a closing keynote to the Biodiversity Heritage Library's National Digital Stewardship Residency program meeting at the National Museum of Natural History. This talk reviews the National Digital Platform framework developed by US IMLS in collaboration with various library, archives and museum stakeholders and presents a series of additional conceptual frameworks on the role of software in society and psychology.
Digital Repositories, the Data Set of the HumanitiesGreg Colati
Digital repositories store and organize digital resources to ensure their long-term preservation and access. They address the dilemma of how digital scholarship can remain discoverable and accessible over time. Repositories aim to be sustainable, authentic, interoperable, and allow reuse of materials in new contexts and applications. They aggregate content at institutional, regional, national and international levels to support research. UConn will launch repository services in 2013 to provide managed digital storage and preservation for university archives, research data, and other scholarly outputs.
Handout for Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
The document provides guidelines for a grant program that will fund projects by Indiana libraries to digitize historical materials. Libraries can apply for subgrants to digitize materials from their collections to contribute to the Indiana Digital Library. Projects must follow standards for digitization and metadata and make materials accessible online. The deadline to apply is March 31, 2006. Successful applicants will be notified in early May 2006.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
This document provides an overview of planning and implementing a digital library project. It discusses defining the project goals, planning activities such as selecting content and writing a proposal, and implementing digitization and metadata creation. The document emphasizes selecting materials that are locally unique and of statewide interest, following standards, and developing sustainable projects through partnerships and technical planning. It also reviews the Indiana State Library's LSTA grant application process and requirements. The overall aim is to help libraries develop "good digital collections" that are interoperable, persistent, and reusable.
Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partner...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
Planning and Managing Digital Library & Archive Projectsac2182
The document provides an overview of a workshop on developing and managing digital library and archive projects. It includes the workshop schedule, introductions from attendees, strategies for success, managing born-digital assets and digitized content, infrastructure requirements, and considerations for digital preservation over the long-term.
This document discusses environmental scanning and Library 2.0. It defines environmental scanning as communicating external information that may influence organizational decision making. Key components of an effective scan include top-level support, objectives, methodology, communication of results, and action planning. Characteristics of effective scanning teams include seeing beyond status quo and having a big picture view. Library 2.0 utilizes new technologies like blogs, wikis and tagging to create more interactive websites and connect users. It provides options for users and increases access to information.
Working in a Global Environment - Success Strategies for Today's Information ...SJSU School of Information
In her opening keynote for the Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference, Dr. Sandra Hirsh, professor and director of the San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Information, discussed the role of information professionals in a global community and the importance of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. Hirsh also talked about how information professionals can become “rock stars” in their organizations and information environments.
The Library 2.014 Worldwide Virtual Conference is the fourth annual event in a series of free virtual conferences co-founded by the SJSU School of Information. The role of libraries in the digital age is the theme of the free international conference. Session recordings can be accessed at http://www.library20.com/page/2014-recordings
Platform Thinking: Frameworks for a National Digital Platform State of MindTrevor Owens
Talk presented as a closing keynote to the Biodiversity Heritage Library's National Digital Stewardship Residency program meeting at the National Museum of Natural History. This talk reviews the National Digital Platform framework developed by US IMLS in collaboration with various library, archives and museum stakeholders and presents a series of additional conceptual frameworks on the role of software in society and psychology.
This document provides information about an information management toolbox course at KADK library. It introduces the course instructors and participants. The agenda for the first session on information literacy is outlined and includes topics such as the basics of information literacy, search strategies, literature review, and source criticism. It defines information literacy and discusses the information behavior of architects and designers, including their preference for visual information. Various search methods like quick and dirty searching, conventional subject searching, and reference list checking are also introduced.
The UTA Libraries offer digital humanities services including consultations and workshops through their Digital Humanities Librarian for both undergraduates and graduate students in collaboration with various programs. They provide subject guides and assistance with platforms like Omeka. Copyright consultations are available to ensure legal compliance when building and using digital collections. The libraries are expanding their digital collections through projects digitizing special collections materials on topics related to the borderlands such as the U.S.-Mexico War and Tejano Voices.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
The document discusses digital libraries, including their definition, common software used, and the current state of digital libraries in Bangladesh. It describes how digital libraries store and retrieve information digitally and are connected through networks. The emergence of the internet led to new concepts like digital libraries. It also outlines several challenges to developing digital libraries in Bangladesh, such as lack of funds and ICT skills, and provides recommendations like establishing a national task force and improving training.
This document summarizes the presentation "Visual Resources in the Digital Age" by Maureen Burns, President of the International Association of Image Media Professionals (VRA). It discusses the transition to digital resources, need for new skills and services, importance of collaboration, and ways libraries can adapt through experimentation and relationship building. Key points are the changing roles for visual resource professionals, leveraging communities through collaboration, and becoming architects of collaborative partnerships.
The document discusses creating a digital library using free and low-cost resources. It describes digital curation as the process of selecting, preserving, and archiving digital assets for current and future use. It provides examples of free resources that can be used to build a digital library, including statewide databases, listservs, social media, blogs, videos sites, and free digital books. It also discusses organizing the digital library through a library webpage, email, and free tools like Live Binders and Diigo.
In recent years governments and research institutions have emphasized the need for open data as a fundamental component of open science. But we need much more than the data themselves for them to be reusable and useful. We need descriptive and machine-readable metadata, of course, but we also need the software and the algorithms necessary to fully understand the data. We need the standards and protocols that allow us to easily read and analyze the data with the tools of our choice. We need to be able to trust the source and derivation of the data. In short, we need an interoperable data infrastructure, but it must be a flexible infrastructure able to work across myriad cultures, scales, and technologies. This talk will present a concept of infrastructure as a body of human, organisational, and machine relationships built around data. It will illustrate how a new organization, the Research Data Alliance, is working to build those relationships to enable functional data sharing and reuse.
Warwick Library Symposium | John MacColl, St Andrews and RLUKResearchLibrariesUK
John MacColl argues that research libraries need to collaborate at an international scale to address pressing issues like open access. He outlines 50 years of research library cooperation through initiatives like shared metadata infrastructure and digitization projects. Experts advocate for more coordination and reliance on networks through strategies like conscious coordination. MacColl proposes establishing a Forum of International Research Library Organisations to provide leadership and leverage to guide collaborative solutions and shape policies at an international level to optimize research libraries globally.
Collection management in a digital age ola2011Tony Horava
This document summarizes a presentation on collection management in the digital age. It discusses how the definition and understanding of a "collection" has changed, and outlines some of the challenges libraries now face, including budget constraints, information fragility, and risk aversion to change. It proposes several strategies to help mitigate these challenges, such as focusing on sustainability, understanding what a collection does rather than what it is, changing practices to add value for patrons, and seeking partnerships to support new opportunities.
Collection management in a digital age ola2011 revisedTony Horava
This document summarizes a presentation on collection management in the digital age. It discusses how the definition and understanding of a "collection" has changed, with factors like ownership, tangibility, and comprehensiveness no longer applying in the same way. It outlines challenges like unsustainable budget models, information fragility, and the need for cancellations. Strategies suggested to address these "crouching tigers" include rethinking budget allocation models and ensuring long-term digital preservation and access to collections.
Mr. Ben Wekalao Namande is a Principal Librarian at the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service and is currently pursuing his PhD at Kenyatta University. The document discusses the Kenya National Archives' efforts to digitize over 680 million pages of records to ensure long-term preservation and access. It describes the four-phase digitization process undertaken so far, challenges faced including lack of resources, and the goal of making records available online. Requirements for developing a digital information center are outlined, including technical infrastructure, trained staff, and software.
ICT - an introduction in Government setupmahajanmanu
This document discusses the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in rural development projects and schemes management. It outlines how ICT can help overcome infrastructural constraints in rural areas by connecting people to local, regional and national economies through access to markets, banking, employment opportunities, etc. It then provides examples of various ICT tools that can be used for data collection, analysis, dissemination, project reporting, monitoring, financial inclusion and more. The last section discusses how ICT can facilitate e-governance, involvement of stakeholders and modes of digital communication.
1) The document discusses how open data and interoperability can drive innovation by empowering people and communities through access to government data.
2) Key points include how open data can meet regulatory needs, communicate with citizens, and spur new economic development and innovation.
3) An open data ecosystem is created by gathering and connecting data, infrastructure, developers, and communities to empower choices and change behavior.
LIBRARY AND KNOWLEDGE ADVOCACY IN INDIA: IN THE WAKE OFShiba Bhue
This document discusses recent initiatives by the Government of India to promote library advocacy and development in a digital environment. It outlines several programs and policies aimed at modernizing libraries, including the National Knowledge Commission, National Mission for Libraries, National Knowledge Network, Right to Information Act, and Digital India program. The initiatives are meant to enhance access to information through e-libraries, digital literacy, open courseware, and building a national supercomputing grid connected through the National Knowledge Network.
DuraSpace and LYRASIS CEO Town Hall Meeting -- April 29, 2016DuraSpace
Debra Hanken Kurtz, CEO of DuraSpace, and Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS, held a community town hall meeting in which they reviewed how the two organizations came together to investigate a merger that would build a more robust, inclusive, and truly global community with multiple benefits for members and users.
DuraSpace is OPEN presented by:
Debra Hanken Kurtz, CEO Jonathan Markow, CSO at the
11th Annual International Conference on Open Repositories 2016, Dublin
11.12.14 Slides: “Doing It: Trends Toward Hosted Service Adoption and Impleme...DuraSpace
This document summarizes a webinar on how non-ARL institutions are managing digital collections. It discusses a survey of 145 non-ARL institutions that found most use hosted services like Digital Commons and ContentDM for their digital repositories rather than locally managed systems. The webinar explored the reasons for using hosted versus local services and the factors considered in making that decision. It also reviewed advantages and disadvantages of each approach and issues to consider regarding migration, preservation and controls.
10.2.14 Slides: “Doing It: Research Results on Non-ARL Academic Libraries Man...DuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 8: Doing It: How Non-ARL Institutions are Managing Digital Collections
Curated by Liz Bishoff, Partner, The Bishoff Group LLC
“Doing It: Research Results on Non-ARL Academic Libraries Managing Digital Collections”
October 2, 2014
Presented by: Liz Bishoff & Carissa Smith
10-31-13 “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation” Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, " Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 3: “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation”
Presented by: David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library, Dick Norris, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Rick Wagner, Data Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center.
How to Get Started Tracking Scholarly Activity with VIVO and SHAREDuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 14: “VIVO plus SHARE: Closing the Loop on Scholarly Activity”
Webinar 3: “How to Get Started Tracking Scholarly Activity with VIVO and SHARE” 3.21.16
Curated by Rick Johnson, Program Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Head, Data Curation and Digital Library Solutions Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame; Visiting Program Officer for SHARE at the Association of Research Libraries. Presented by Erin Braswell, Infrastructure Developer, SHARE - Center for Open Science
12.10.14 Slides, “Roadmap to the Future of SHARE”DuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 10: All About the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)
Webinar 3: Roadmap to the Future of SHARE
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Presented by Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director, Association of Research Libraries
This document provides information about an information management toolbox course at KADK library. It introduces the course instructors and participants. The agenda for the first session on information literacy is outlined and includes topics such as the basics of information literacy, search strategies, literature review, and source criticism. It defines information literacy and discusses the information behavior of architects and designers, including their preference for visual information. Various search methods like quick and dirty searching, conventional subject searching, and reference list checking are also introduced.
The UTA Libraries offer digital humanities services including consultations and workshops through their Digital Humanities Librarian for both undergraduates and graduate students in collaboration with various programs. They provide subject guides and assistance with platforms like Omeka. Copyright consultations are available to ensure legal compliance when building and using digital collections. The libraries are expanding their digital collections through projects digitizing special collections materials on topics related to the borderlands such as the U.S.-Mexico War and Tejano Voices.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
The document discusses digital libraries, including their definition, common software used, and the current state of digital libraries in Bangladesh. It describes how digital libraries store and retrieve information digitally and are connected through networks. The emergence of the internet led to new concepts like digital libraries. It also outlines several challenges to developing digital libraries in Bangladesh, such as lack of funds and ICT skills, and provides recommendations like establishing a national task force and improving training.
This document summarizes the presentation "Visual Resources in the Digital Age" by Maureen Burns, President of the International Association of Image Media Professionals (VRA). It discusses the transition to digital resources, need for new skills and services, importance of collaboration, and ways libraries can adapt through experimentation and relationship building. Key points are the changing roles for visual resource professionals, leveraging communities through collaboration, and becoming architects of collaborative partnerships.
The document discusses creating a digital library using free and low-cost resources. It describes digital curation as the process of selecting, preserving, and archiving digital assets for current and future use. It provides examples of free resources that can be used to build a digital library, including statewide databases, listservs, social media, blogs, videos sites, and free digital books. It also discusses organizing the digital library through a library webpage, email, and free tools like Live Binders and Diigo.
In recent years governments and research institutions have emphasized the need for open data as a fundamental component of open science. But we need much more than the data themselves for them to be reusable and useful. We need descriptive and machine-readable metadata, of course, but we also need the software and the algorithms necessary to fully understand the data. We need the standards and protocols that allow us to easily read and analyze the data with the tools of our choice. We need to be able to trust the source and derivation of the data. In short, we need an interoperable data infrastructure, but it must be a flexible infrastructure able to work across myriad cultures, scales, and technologies. This talk will present a concept of infrastructure as a body of human, organisational, and machine relationships built around data. It will illustrate how a new organization, the Research Data Alliance, is working to build those relationships to enable functional data sharing and reuse.
Warwick Library Symposium | John MacColl, St Andrews and RLUKResearchLibrariesUK
John MacColl argues that research libraries need to collaborate at an international scale to address pressing issues like open access. He outlines 50 years of research library cooperation through initiatives like shared metadata infrastructure and digitization projects. Experts advocate for more coordination and reliance on networks through strategies like conscious coordination. MacColl proposes establishing a Forum of International Research Library Organisations to provide leadership and leverage to guide collaborative solutions and shape policies at an international level to optimize research libraries globally.
Collection management in a digital age ola2011Tony Horava
This document summarizes a presentation on collection management in the digital age. It discusses how the definition and understanding of a "collection" has changed, and outlines some of the challenges libraries now face, including budget constraints, information fragility, and risk aversion to change. It proposes several strategies to help mitigate these challenges, such as focusing on sustainability, understanding what a collection does rather than what it is, changing practices to add value for patrons, and seeking partnerships to support new opportunities.
Collection management in a digital age ola2011 revisedTony Horava
This document summarizes a presentation on collection management in the digital age. It discusses how the definition and understanding of a "collection" has changed, with factors like ownership, tangibility, and comprehensiveness no longer applying in the same way. It outlines challenges like unsustainable budget models, information fragility, and the need for cancellations. Strategies suggested to address these "crouching tigers" include rethinking budget allocation models and ensuring long-term digital preservation and access to collections.
Mr. Ben Wekalao Namande is a Principal Librarian at the Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service and is currently pursuing his PhD at Kenyatta University. The document discusses the Kenya National Archives' efforts to digitize over 680 million pages of records to ensure long-term preservation and access. It describes the four-phase digitization process undertaken so far, challenges faced including lack of resources, and the goal of making records available online. Requirements for developing a digital information center are outlined, including technical infrastructure, trained staff, and software.
ICT - an introduction in Government setupmahajanmanu
This document discusses the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in rural development projects and schemes management. It outlines how ICT can help overcome infrastructural constraints in rural areas by connecting people to local, regional and national economies through access to markets, banking, employment opportunities, etc. It then provides examples of various ICT tools that can be used for data collection, analysis, dissemination, project reporting, monitoring, financial inclusion and more. The last section discusses how ICT can facilitate e-governance, involvement of stakeholders and modes of digital communication.
1) The document discusses how open data and interoperability can drive innovation by empowering people and communities through access to government data.
2) Key points include how open data can meet regulatory needs, communicate with citizens, and spur new economic development and innovation.
3) An open data ecosystem is created by gathering and connecting data, infrastructure, developers, and communities to empower choices and change behavior.
LIBRARY AND KNOWLEDGE ADVOCACY IN INDIA: IN THE WAKE OFShiba Bhue
This document discusses recent initiatives by the Government of India to promote library advocacy and development in a digital environment. It outlines several programs and policies aimed at modernizing libraries, including the National Knowledge Commission, National Mission for Libraries, National Knowledge Network, Right to Information Act, and Digital India program. The initiatives are meant to enhance access to information through e-libraries, digital literacy, open courseware, and building a national supercomputing grid connected through the National Knowledge Network.
DuraSpace and LYRASIS CEO Town Hall Meeting -- April 29, 2016DuraSpace
Debra Hanken Kurtz, CEO of DuraSpace, and Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS, held a community town hall meeting in which they reviewed how the two organizations came together to investigate a merger that would build a more robust, inclusive, and truly global community with multiple benefits for members and users.
DuraSpace is OPEN presented by:
Debra Hanken Kurtz, CEO Jonathan Markow, CSO at the
11th Annual International Conference on Open Repositories 2016, Dublin
11.12.14 Slides: “Doing It: Trends Toward Hosted Service Adoption and Impleme...DuraSpace
This document summarizes a webinar on how non-ARL institutions are managing digital collections. It discusses a survey of 145 non-ARL institutions that found most use hosted services like Digital Commons and ContentDM for their digital repositories rather than locally managed systems. The webinar explored the reasons for using hosted versus local services and the factors considered in making that decision. It also reviewed advantages and disadvantages of each approach and issues to consider regarding migration, preservation and controls.
10.2.14 Slides: “Doing It: Research Results on Non-ARL Academic Libraries Man...DuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 8: Doing It: How Non-ARL Institutions are Managing Digital Collections
Curated by Liz Bishoff, Partner, The Bishoff Group LLC
“Doing It: Research Results on Non-ARL Academic Libraries Managing Digital Collections”
October 2, 2014
Presented by: Liz Bishoff & Carissa Smith
10-31-13 “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation” Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
“Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series, " Series Six: Research Data in Repositories” Curated by David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library. Webinar 3: “Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation”
Presented by: David Minor, Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego Library, Dick Norris, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Rick Wagner, Data Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center.
How to Get Started Tracking Scholarly Activity with VIVO and SHAREDuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 14: “VIVO plus SHARE: Closing the Loop on Scholarly Activity”
Webinar 3: “How to Get Started Tracking Scholarly Activity with VIVO and SHARE” 3.21.16
Curated by Rick Johnson, Program Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Head, Data Curation and Digital Library Solutions Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame; Visiting Program Officer for SHARE at the Association of Research Libraries. Presented by Erin Braswell, Infrastructure Developer, SHARE - Center for Open Science
12.10.14 Slides, “Roadmap to the Future of SHARE”DuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 10: All About the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE)
Webinar 3: Roadmap to the Future of SHARE
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Presented by Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director, Association of Research Libraries
1.22.15 Slides: “Doing It: Real Life Experiences with Hosted Institutional /...DuraSpace
The document summarizes a webinar hosted by DuraSpace on managing digital collections at non-ARL institutions. It discusses a survey of 145 non-ARL institutions that found most (73%) use hosted repository services rather than locally managing collections. The webinar then features three presentations: Illinois Wesleyan University discusses its experience with Digital Commons and highlights student and faculty work hosted; Bennington College discusses selecting and implementing DSpace; and factors in selecting repository software are discussed.
A National Agenda for Digital Stewardship Micah Altman
This was presented at the 2013 CNI Fall Member meeting:
http://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/upcoming-meeting/fall-2013/
Digital stewardship is vital for the authenticity of public records, the reliability of scientific evidence, and the enduring accessibility to our cultural heritage. Knowledge of ongoing research, practice, and organizational collaborations has been distributed widely across disciplines, sectors, and communities of practice. The National Agenda for Digital Stewardship annually integrates the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions, convened through the Library of Congress, to identify the highest-impact opportunities to advance the state of the art; the state of practice; and the state of collaboration within the next 3-5 years. This talk discusses key highlights from the inaugural report and related ongoing work by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance.
RDAP 15: Research Data Integration in the Purdue LibrariesASIS&T
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, 2015
Minneapolis, MN
April 22-23, 2015
Lisa Zilinski, Data Specialist, Carnegie Mellon University
Amy Barton, Metadata Specialist, Purdue
Tao Zhang, Digital User Experience Specialist, Purdue
Line Pouchard, Computational Science Information Specialist, Purdue
Pete E. Pascuzzi, Molecular Biosciences Information Specialist, Purdue
Workshop session given at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012 (IWMW 2012) event held at the University of Edinburgh on 18th - 20th June 2012.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
This document provides an overview of planning and implementing a digital library project. It discusses establishing goals and objectives, planning activities such as selecting content and writing proposals, implementing digitization, and evaluating projects. The document was presented as part of a workshop on digital library projects, and provides guidance on various aspects of the planning and implementation process.
Presented by Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collection & Recollection Wisconsin for DPLAFest 2019 on Wednesday, April 17 in Chicago, IL.
Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC), a two-year, IMLS grant-funded program managed by WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin, a DPLA Service Hub for Wisconsin cultural heritage organizations. Launched in December 2017, CCDC aims to 1) provide digital stewardship practicum experience for information school graduate students; 2) to help small or under-resourced institutions in Wisconsin develop and sustain a digital preservation program; and 3) to build community around digital preservation work within Wisconsin and beyond.
Missouri Digital Heritage: Missouri’s State Wide Digital Portal - Haiying QianCALA-MW
Missouri Digital Heritage (MDH) is Missouri's statewide digital portal that was established in 2007. It contains around 80 digital collections from various state agencies. MDH aims to provide access to digitized historical materials through outreach, collaboration, and usability studies. Recent studies found that the content is valuable but the organization, navigation, and search functionality could be improved. Future plans include redesigning the website based on these findings and promoting collections for the Civil War sesquicentennial.
A call to librarians to use their library powers in the community beyond the walls of their institutions as the open data folks need their knowledge!
Title:
Open Sesame: Open Data, Data Liberation and New Opportunities for Libraries
Abstract:
Cities and data producers are quickly embracing Open Data, albeit unevenly. The Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) has been a pioneer in broadening access to data for nearly two decades. This session will examine the relevance of Data Liberation in terms of Open Data and explore how librarians can step up to the plate to make Open Data/Open Government as successful as DLI.
Speakers:
- Wendy Watkins, Data Librarian, Carleton University
- Ernie Boyko, Adjunct Data Librarian, Carleton University
- Tracey P. Lauriault, Post Doctoral Fellow, Carleton University (tlauriau@gmail.com)
- Margaret Haines, University Librarian, Carleton University
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series 1: Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning
Webinar 2: Preservation Planning Success Stories
Curated by Liz Bishoff
Presentation Slides
(Nov 2008) Preparing Future Digital CuratorsCarolyn Hank
Event: Practical Applications of Digital Curation Education panel at the Fall 2008 Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Silver Spring, MD, November 7, 2008. With Helen R. Tibbo, Sayeed Choudhury, and Kenneth Thibodeau
Knowledge about digital stewardship is distributed widely across disciplines, sectors, and communities. The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) bridges boundaries and coalesces expertise to increase the capacity to preserve digital resources at a national scale for the benefit of present and future generations. The National Agenda for Digital Stewardship annually integrates the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions provides funders and executive decision‐makers insight into emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and key areas for funding, research and development to ensure that today's valuable digital content remains accessible and comprehensible in the future, supporting a thriving economy, a robust democracy, and a rich cultural heritage
This meeting will be held in Amherst, M.A., and is open to the public. More information is available through the conference website:
http://sites.hampshire.edu/theharold/2014/10/02/ndsa-ne-regional-meeting-at-the-university-of-massachusetts-amherst-libraries/
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OCLC Research Update at ALA Chicago. June 26, 2017.OCLC
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The Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) provides digital preservation and access services for cultural heritage organizations in Connecticut. It aims to ensure that digital cultural resources from the state remain accessible over time. The CTDA offers a shared digital repository for storage, preservation, and presentation of member organizations' materials. Content owners retain control over their data while benefiting from the CTDA's infrastructure and services, which include secure storage, metadata services, and presentation through websites and aggregation with other collections. The goals are to overcome the challenges of digital ephemerality, fragmentation, and lack of discoverability that currently face Connecticut's cultural heritage online.
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Presenter: Timothy Cherubini.
Presented at the Georgia Libraries Conference in Columbus, GA on 10/04/2017.
Thousands of public libraries diligently contribute to data collection efforts each year. While the value of data is broadly recognized, concerns have emerged about the proliferation of surveys, lack of coordination between collecting organizations,
duplication of efforts, and uncertainty about use of and access to data. The biggest question: Is the data we are collecting the right data to tell the story of the 21st century library effectively? Measures that Matter is a field-wide initiative to explore these
issues and questions. It is led by the Chief Officers of
State Library Agencies with the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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1-15-14 DuraSpace Solutions Webinar: The National Agenda for Digital Stewardship presentation slides
1. DuraSpace Solutions
"The National Agenda for Digital
Stewardship: Coordinated National
Planning for Preserving Our Shared
Digital Assets “
Presented by Butch Lazorchak
January 15, 2014
DuraSpace Solutions
2. The National Digital Stewardship
Alliance
Butch Lazorchak
National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program, Library of Congress
Co-Chair, National Digital Stewardship Alliance
Outreach Working Group
3. Outline
• What is the National Digital Stewardship
Alliance?
• What is the 2014 National Agenda for Digital
Stewardship?
• Why?
• What do you think?
4. What is the NDSA?
Launched in July 2010, the National Digital Stewardship
Alliance is a lightweight, voluntary, collaborative effort
among government agencies, educational institutions,
nonprofit organizations and business entities to
preserve a distributed national digital collection for the
benefit of generations now and in the future.
The mission of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance
is to establish, maintain, and advance the capacity to
preserve our nation’s digital resources for the benefit of
present and future generations
5. Relationship? It’s Complicated!
Viewshare
Personal Digital Archiving
Web Archiving
Library of Congress
Digital Preservation Outreach
Content Summits (geospatial,
creative community, etc.
Meetings and Events (Digital
Preservation 2014)
Etc.
NDIIPP
NDSA
“The strategic planning office for
digital preservation issues at the
Library of Congress.”
6. Relationship? It’s Complicated!
Library of Congress
“The National Digital
Stewardship Alliance is an
initiative of NDIIPP.”
NDIIPP
NDSA
“NDIIPP provides the
secretariat for the NDSA”
7. Why Does the NDSA Exist?
• We need it!
• Keep the family together
• Continue to build on existing
networks (state government,
geospatial, creative
community, library technology,
etc.)
• Broaden the base (everybody*
is invited!)
• Whole > X+X+X+X
• “Do Big Things”
• “Do Little Things”
8. The Relationships Hierarchy
• The Library of Congress
– The National Digital Information
Infrastructure and Preservation
Program
• The National Digital Stewardship
Alliance
– The NDSA Coordinating Committee
– The NDSA Working Groups
» Outreach WG
» Content WG
» Infrastructure WG
» Standards WG
» Innovation WG
9. NDSA Coordinating Committee
• Micah Altman, MIT
• Jonathan Crabtree, Odum
Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Jim Corridan, Indiana Commission
on Public Records
• Meg Phillips, National Archives
• Robin Ruggaber, UVA
• John Spencer, BMS/Chace
• Helen Tibbo, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Kate Wittenberg, Portico
http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/members.html
11. What Has the NDSA Done for Me
Lately?
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
2014 National Agenda For Digital Stewardship
Storage Survey
Levels of Preservation Activity
“Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data”
Report
Web Archiving Survey
Digital Preservation in a Box
resource kit
Annual Innovation Awards
“Staffing For Effective Digital
Preservation” Report
PDF/A-3
report (forthcoming)
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities
/
12. Agenda: “A list or program
of things to be done or
considered” – The Free
Dictionary
http://digitalpreservation.gov/nd
sa/nationalagenda/index.html
13. What is the National Agenda for Digital
Stewardship?
“The 2014 National Agenda for Digital
Stewardship integrates the perspective of dozens
of experts and hundreds of institutions,
convened through the Library of Congress, to
provide funders and other executive decisionmakers with insight into emerging technological
trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and
key areas for development.” –National Agenda,
pg. 2
14.
15. National Agenda Topic Areas
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•
•
•
Organizational Roles, Policies, and Practices
Digital Content Areas
Technical Infrastructure Development
Research Priorities
16. Organizational Roles, Policies, and
Practices
• Work together to raise the profile of digital preservation and
campaign for more resources and higher priority given to
digital preservation
• Highlight the importance of digital curation and the real costs
of ensuring long term access
• Coordinate to develop comprehensive coverage on critical
standards bodies
• Promote systematic community monitoring of technology
changes relevant to digital preservation
17. Organizational Roles, Policies, and
Practices: Examples
• NDSA Report: Staffing for Effective Digital Preservation
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/NDSA-StaffingSurvey-Report-Final122013.pdf
• National Digital Stewardship Residency
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsr/
• POWRR: Preserving (Digital) Objects With Restricted
Resources
http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/
• More work needs to be done on standards
participation, communication, technology
monitoring, cost modeling
18. Digital Content Areas
• Electronic Records
• Research Data
• Web and Social Media
• Moving Image and Recorded Sound
19. Digital Content Areas: Examples
• Levels of Preservation
http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/activities/levels.html
• Web Archiving Survey (report in 2014)
http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/ndsa_web_archiving_survey_201
3.pdf
• Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of
Geospatial Data report
http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/working_gro
ups/documents/NDSA_AppraisalSelection_report
_final102413.pdf
20. Technical Infrastructure
•File Format Action Plan Development
•Interoperability and Portability in Storage
Architectures
•Integration of Digital Forensics Tools
•Ensuring Content Integrity
22. Research Priorities
• Applied Research for Cost
Modeling and Audit Modeling
• Understanding Information
Equivalence & Significance
• Policy Research on Trust
Frameworks
• Preservation at Scale
• The Evidence Base for Digital
Preservation
24. The National Agenda Helps Shape the
Conversation
• Policy driver
• Funding driver
• Communication tool that
catalyzes digital stewardship
activity
25. National Agenda as a Policy Driver
• Influence practice
• Suggest collaborative
opportunities
• Makes the case for
stewardship to decisionmakers
26. National Agenda as a Funding Driver
• Suggests funding opportunities
and priorities for granting
organizations
• Makes the case for
stewardship to funders
27. National Agenda as a Communications
Tool
• Annual release concentrates
communication activity
• Useful tool to start stewardship
conversation
• Broad organization
participation adds gravitas
28. National Agenda Outreach Actions
• Release campaign timed with Digital
Preservation 2013 meeting
• Webinars (Duraspace)
• Public presentations (CNI,DLF, BPE,
Webwise, NDSA Philadelphia Regional
meeting, IDCC14, Computers in
Libraries, IASSIST, etc.)
• Publications (DLF factsheet
series, D-Lib “In Brief”)
30. What should the 2015 NDSA National
Agenda for Digital Stewardship
address?
31. Thanks!
Butch Lazorchak
Digital Archivist
Library of Congress
wlaz@loc.gov
ndsa@loc.gov
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Editor's Notes
Organizational Roles, Policies and Practices
describes the overarching challenges faced by the digital preservation community
articulates the problem that it is increasingly difficult to adequately preserve our valuable digital content
it’s difficult because of a complex set of interrelated societal, technological, financial and organizational pressures
Pressures outside our organizations include:
At the broadest context (a global problem) is that there are rapidly accelerating technological changes – as well as changes in how people use technology – and an increasing complexity and increasing volume of data
Evolving data management and security policies
Complex and evolving rights management landscape
Pressures in our organizations include:
Increased costs, decreased resources
Lack of adequate digital preservation staff – both in sheer numbers of personnel as well as a lack of expertise.
Increased scope of responsibilities
Lack of prioritization of digital preservation by higher administrators (those controlling the budgets)
The agenda describes one potential solution for us as a community to campaign for more resources; and work to raise awareness about the real cost and importance of digital preservation through outreach activities
However, even if we increase the resources available for digital prservatoin, we have to make sure that we are spending the money our organizations have for digital preservation (and the money that funders invest in digital preservation) as wisely as possible.
In the 2014 National Agenda, we suggest that the way to do this is to dramatically increase cross-organizational cooperation, which you could think of as smart collaborations.
Impractical for every institution to develop expertise in every aspect of the digital preservation challenge.
It’s smarter to divide up the work
Share capabilities – leverage specialized resources and expertise
Share responsibilities
Collaboration frees us up to put investments where they can make a large impact
The agenda lists several areas we should apply this cross-organizational cooperation and this section concentrates on three of them:
1) Provision of preservation services – network of preservation service providers that can provide specialized services so every organization does not have to perform all aspects of digital preservation itself. (examples: DPN, OCLC’s idea for SWAQT sites)
2) Share responsibility for shepherding and promoting the use of relevant standards – so that the digital preservation community as a whole as coverage on the relevant standards bodies without each organization needing to participate in every body.
3) Share digital preservation training and staffing resources (curricula training materials, position descriptions, etc). We can use these materials in a variety of digital preservation education experiences for example
* Immersive internships and fellowships for undergrads, graduate students and post-graduates
Workforce or professional development
educational programs that are affiliated with data management or scientific disciplines
Organizational Roles, Policies and Practices
describes the overarching challenges faced by the digital preservation community
articulates the problem that it is increasingly difficult to adequately preserve our valuable digital content
it’s difficult because of a complex set of interrelated societal, technological, financial and organizational pressures
Pressures outside our organizations include:
At the broadest context (a global problem) is that there are rapidly accelerating technological changes – as well as changes in how people use technology – and an increasing complexity and increasing volume of data
Evolving data management and security policies
Complex and evolving rights management landscape
Pressures in our organizations include:
Increased costs, decreased resources
Lack of adequate digital preservation staff – both in sheer numbers of personnel as well as a lack of expertise.
Increased scope of responsibilities
Lack of prioritization of digital preservation by higher administrators (those controlling the budgets)
The agenda describes one potential solution for us as a community to campaign for more resources; and work to raise awareness about the real cost and importance of digital preservation through outreach activities
However, even if we increase the resources available for digital prservatoin, we have to make sure that we are spending the money our organizations have for digital preservation (and the money that funders invest in digital preservation) as wisely as possible.
In the 2014 National Agenda, we suggest that the way to do this is to dramatically increase cross-organizational cooperation, which you could think of as smart collaborations.
Impractical for every institution to develop expertise in every aspect of the digital preservation challenge.
It’s smarter to divide up the work
Share capabilities – leverage specialized resources and expertise
Share responsibilities
Collaboration frees us up to put investments where they can make a large impact
The agenda lists several areas we should apply this cross-organizational cooperation and this section concentrates on three of them:
1) Provision of preservation services – network of preservation service providers that can provide specialized services so every organization does not have to perform all aspects of digital preservation itself. (examples: DPN, OCLC’s idea for SWAQT sites)
2) Share responsibility for shepherding and promoting the use of relevant standards – so that the digital preservation community as a whole as coverage on the relevant standards bodies without each organization needing to participate in every body.
3) Share digital preservation training and staffing resources (curricula training materials, position descriptions, etc). We can use these materials in a variety of digital preservation education experiences for example
* Immersive internships and fellowships for undergrads, graduate students and post-graduates
Workforce or professional development
educational programs that are affiliated with data management or scientific disciplines
Overview:
The Content WG, which now has more than 100 members, discussed content types most at risk of loss and decided that the 4 types defined in this document are our priority to address in the 2014 year.
Overarching challenges across content types that we discussed include:
First, that different content types present a variety of challenges related to preservation including, for example:
o size/scale of content (web archives, big data),
o selection of content when we can't preserve everything - how do we define what is important to preserve.
Secondly, when we select content to preserve, audiences increasingly expect expanded access options - tools for engaging and interacting with the content, usability standards met, involvement in the selection of content to preserve.
Four priority content areas selected for focus in 2014 are, in no specific order: Electronic Records, Research Data, Web and Social Media, and Moving Image and Recorded Sound. Each was selected for the 2014 list because of its importance to many of our organizations, and the already observed loss of this type of digital content.
Electronic Records that need to be preserved range from personal records such as electronic diaries, to business and organization electronic records, and to records created by all levels of government. Issues related to electronic records are:
-Knowledge related to selection, including retention schedules, legal requirements, and researchers' interests is lacking, and knowledge is lacking about preservation strategies for his content.
- Current infrastructure is inadequate in many organizations/government agencies to implement preservation of e-records. Collaborative models need further development.
Research Data are an acute challenge already recognized by many organizations. Challenges include:
- the scale and often heterogeneous and diverse nature of the data and the many different information standards used.
- costs, which are perhaps the overriding challenge. There is significant need for the development of sustainable economic models to cover management of research data throughout the lifecycle.
- and, a gap in the knowledge base for stewarding the preservation of research data exists. In most organizations, there is no clear understanding of who is responsible for preserving research data. This area, in particular, seems to be an area in which the digital preservation and curation community could help.
Moving Image and Recorded Sound
How many in this room have a smartphone with a audio and video recorder or editor on it?
-This is an area where the creation of content has shifted dramatically with the advent of easy tools that fit in your pocket, the sheer amount of content being created is overwhelming stewards
- flood of digital content poses new challenge:
-storage and management of large files
-ability to play back in the future
- vital for content creators and stewards work together to develop new standards
-not only are we talking about born digital, but also content converted from older storage media, which has a short lifespan, but then the new digital files need preservation
Web and Social Media
More organizations than ever preserving web content, but…
-Websites are more complex than ever and tools in use for crawling and access not able to keep up
-Full text indexing of web archives remains a challenge, though the international community has been working on this, there are still no easy solutions
-Social media companies don't have preservation as a business model, and we are concerned about the ability to preserve with the constant and ever-changing barriers that companies put in place
-Privacy issues, particularly when it comes to social media preservation, present challenges as well.
Even though there is a significant need for research related to web archives preservation and access, very little funding has been allocated to this end, that we are aware of. -There is some encouraging news about a recent grant by the Mellon Foundation to Columbia University Libraries to pursue collaborative web archiving initiatives, including the development of software, however the micro-grants that Columbia will pass out will be relatively small (maximum 25K each). -There was also a prior grant by the IMLS, who funded work on automatic classification of web pages from a collaborative End of Term government web archive
Overview:
The Content WG, which now has more than 100 members, discussed content types most at risk of loss and decided that the 4 types defined in this document are our priority to address in the 2014 year.
Overarching challenges across content types that we discussed include:
First, that different content types present a variety of challenges related to preservation including, for example:
o size/scale of content (web archives, big data),
o selection of content when we can't preserve everything - how do we define what is important to preserve.
Secondly, when we select content to preserve, audiences increasingly expect expanded access options - tools for engaging and interacting with the content, usability standards met, involvement in the selection of content to preserve.
Four priority content areas selected for focus in 2014 are, in no specific order: Electronic Records, Research Data, Web and Social Media, and Moving Image and Recorded Sound. Each was selected for the 2014 list because of its importance to many of our organizations, and the already observed loss of this type of digital content.
Electronic Records that need to be preserved range from personal records such as electronic diaries, to business and organization electronic records, and to records created by all levels of government. Issues related to electronic records are:
-Knowledge related to selection, including retention schedules, legal requirements, and researchers' interests is lacking, and knowledge is lacking about preservation strategies for his content.
- Current infrastructure is inadequate in many organizations/government agencies to implement preservation of e-records. Collaborative models need further development.
Research Data are an acute challenge already recognized by many organizations. Challenges include:
- the scale and often heterogeneous and diverse nature of the data and the many different information standards used.
- costs, which are perhaps the overriding challenge. There is significant need for the development of sustainable economic models to cover management of research data throughout the lifecycle.
- and, a gap in the knowledge base for stewarding the preservation of research data exists. In most organizations, there is no clear understanding of who is responsible for preserving research data. This area, in particular, seems to be an area in which the digital preservation and curation community could help.
Moving Image and Recorded Sound
How many in this room have a smartphone with a audio and video recorder or editor on it?
-This is an area where the creation of content has shifted dramatically with the advent of easy tools that fit in your pocket, the sheer amount of content being created is overwhelming stewards
- flood of digital content poses new challenge:
-storage and management of large files
-ability to play back in the future
- vital for content creators and stewards work together to develop new standards
-not only are we talking about born digital, but also content converted from older storage media, which has a short lifespan, but then the new digital files need preservation
Web and Social Media
More organizations than ever preserving web content, but…
-Websites are more complex than ever and tools in use for crawling and access not able to keep up
-Full text indexing of web archives remains a challenge, though the international community has been working on this, there are still no easy solutions
-Social media companies don't have preservation as a business model, and we are concerned about the ability to preserve with the constant and ever-changing barriers that companies put in place
-Privacy issues, particularly when it comes to social media preservation, present challenges as well.
Even though there is a significant need for research related to web archives preservation and access, very little funding has been allocated to this end, that we are aware of. -There is some encouraging news about a recent grant by the Mellon Foundation to Columbia University Libraries to pursue collaborative web archiving initiatives, including the development of software, however the micro-grants that Columbia will pass out will be relatively small (maximum 25K each). -There was also a prior grant by the IMLS, who funded work on automatic classification of web pages from a collaborative End of Term government web archive
the set of interconnected technical elements that provides a framework for supporting an entire structure of design, development, deployment and documentation in service of applications, systems, and tools for digital preservation
includes hardware, software, and systems.
Organizational policies, practice, and regulation inform many of the observations and recommendations for the development of digital stewardship infrastructure.
Main areas of need:
File Format Action Plan Development
Many formats to manage
Standards needed/guidelines
Interoperability and Portability in Storage Architectures
Sharing data tapes/storage……. plug and play
Integration of Digital Forensics Tools
Research needed
Ensuring Content Integrity
Migration assuring content
Fixity checks/validity checks
clear need for organizations to share assessments of institutional risk and plans for mitigating those risks;
to develop use‐case driven best practices for fixity in particular system designs and configurations;
to move the basic research in digital forensics tools from research to implementation in production workflows for organizations.
need for
integration
interoperability
portability
related standards and protocols
the set of interconnected technical elements that provides a framework for supporting an entire structure of design, development, deployment and documentation in service of applications, systems, and tools for digital preservation
includes hardware, software, and systems.
Organizational policies, practice, and regulation inform many of the observations and recommendations for the development of digital stewardship infrastructure.
Main areas of need:
File Format Action Plan Development
Many formats to manage
Standards needed/guidelines
Interoperability and Portability in Storage Architectures
Sharing data tapes/storage……. plug and play
Integration of Digital Forensics Tools
Research needed
Ensuring Content Integrity
Migration assuring content
Fixity checks/validity checks
clear need for organizations to share assessments of institutional risk and plans for mitigating those risks;
to develop use‐case driven best practices for fixity in particular system designs and configurations;
to move the basic research in digital forensics tools from research to implementation in production workflows for organizations.
need for
integration
interoperability
portability
related standards and protocols
So I’m am going to provide a quick overview of the Agenda’s final section, the Research Priorities section.
Research in digital stewardship faces a number of challenges – digital preservation is, of course, a long-term responsibility and its benefits serve broad and diverse communities and can be difficult to quantify and funding in this area tends to be project or content specific. But beyond those challenges the agenda identifies 5 areas of opportunity.
I’ll discuss each research priority individually, but the priorities are organized around five areas:
Applied Research for Cost Modeling and Audit Modeling
Understanding Information Equivalence and Significance
Policy Research and Trust Frameworks
Preservation at Scale
And Strengthening the Evidence Base for Digital Preservation
Topic Area 1: Applied Research for Cost Modeling and Audit Modeling
There is currently little research in cost modeling beyond that focusing on the capacity and density of specific storage media and costs of storage through time. The national agenda recommends more research into the benefits and value of preserved content through time – be it through research use, cultural documentation, transactional accountability, or other uses. Cost and audit modeling need to move beyond analyzing pure infrastructure costs. Similarly, developments like cost calculators that could allow institutions to match content types, infrastructure needs, and resource capacity can help with appraisal and management decisions as far as digital content selected for preservation. Lastly, cost and audit models need to account for multiple storage methods: local, consortial, distributed, cloud, hybrid approaches – the many options for storing and auditing digital content can present stewards with many choices, choices that additional research can support.
Topic Area 2: Understanding Information Equivalence and Significance
The ease of duplication and transmission of digital objects is one of their most appealing qualities, but also one of the most challenging when it comes to identifying uniqueness and significance. Information content and information context are often divergent. At the same time, qualities that signal or encapsulate divergence, for instance technical metadata, are often invisible to users and even collection managers. Further research into the grades of instantiation of digital materials and how these differences and equivalences impact selection and preservation will enhance future stewardship practices. Tools like fuzzy hashing to recognize bitstream similarity, tools to characterize fidelity and compare image patterns or frame rates – these can facilitate improvements to how we manage and preserve large sets of digital objects.
Topic Area 3: Policy Research and Trust Frameworks
Digital preservation research and literature has identified a range of specific risks to digital content: failure of many types -- software, hardware, media, organizational – as well as obsolescence, custodial risk, natural disaster, etc – these are all well defined and have led to the emergence of collaborative and consortial efforts to spread and reduce risk, efforts like LOCKSS, Data-PASS, MetaArchive, and Digital Preservation Network. But study of the reliability and design of these frameworks has not kept pace. Better tools are need to assess and measure, quantifiably, existing policy models and trust frameworks. An area of potential research is testing methods of self-evaluation for compliance with standards like ISO 16363 (TRAC) and these can be matched with peer-reviewed and community-driven assessment. Modularity of auditing is another area of potential interest. Lastly, policy and trust frameworks continue to operate at a high, often purely conceptual level that makes implementation, not to mention comprehension, difficult for some organizations. Further research in these areas can lead to the design and evaluation of policy and trust frameworks that better mitigate risk through time and better facilitate the overall preservation of digital content.
Discussion at our prior presentation of the agenda focused largely on the chance to extend and test collaborative models, especially research focused on governance models.
Topic Area 4: Preservation at Scale
As the size of digital collections continues to grow, better understanding is needed into the ramifications of big data on matters of preservation and access. The prototyping and development of new technologies that will allow stewards to scale up activities like indexing, validating, querying, and delivering digital content must continue at the same pace as digital content creation. The current demands on software and infrastructure made by big data is compounded by changing researcher and user expectations about access, especially research dependent on the availability of large data sets. In addition, data collected and preserved and intended for use at scale also raises questions about privacy, confidentiality, and personally-identifiable information. Digital forensics toolkits, data mining algorithms, an other technologies offer promise; and collaborative, community driven approaches to shared infrastructure and scalability may alleviate some of the demands of big data on the technology stack. These potential solutions will benefit greatly from additional research.
Topic Area 5: Strengthening the Evidence Base for Digital Preservation
Finally, underpinning all these topics is a notable lack of empirical evidence in digital stewardship research. Questions of cost, value, scope, scale, statistics on the rates of bit corruption or hardware failure, obsolescence, reliability and replication – all require a shared evidence base to drive future research and technology and policy development. Use cases, formal test beds of content available for research, and other community-supported bodies of evidence need to be available for testing in many different technology and institutional environments. Evidence-based methodologies from other disciplines can provide a model for this work and outcome-based and replicable testing and experimentation using standardized sample data in operational environments will help extend the evidence base for digital preservation.
Areas of discussion at DP13 included ensuring that research in these areas can be translated to smaller organization, making innovation more applicable and better navigating the move from innovation and development work to implementation, capitalizing on demonstrated use cases and social interest to better define the value proposition inherent in digital stewardship, better coordination between content types and selection and appraisal decisions, and an overall increase in precise and quantifiable goals and outcomes for digital stewardship research.